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Biography

Ignacio Castillo is a professor of operations and decision sciences at the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University. He received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001, an M.S.E. in industrial engineering from Arizona State University in 1998, and a B.S. (magna cum laude) in applied sciences from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, in 1995. His research and teaching interests include facility location, facility layout and material handling systems, manufacturing and service operations and logistics, and sustainable and closed-loop supply chain management. Dr. Castillo has served as adjunct faculty at the University of Alberta and the University of Waterloo and is a member of Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Pinnacle Honor Society, and a Glenn Carroll Teaching Fellow.